Open Virtualization Alliance

[Posted May 20, 2011 by ris]

The recently announced Open Virtualization Alliance is "a consortium committed to fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)." The founding companies include BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, and SUSE. "The Open Virtualization Alliance will provide education, best practices and technical advice to help businesses understand and evaluate their virtualization options. The consortium complements the existing open source communities managing the development of the KVM hypervisor and associated management capabilities, which are rapidly driving technology innovations for customers virtualizing both Linux and Windows applications." (Thanks to Romain Francoise)

Open Virtualization Alliance

Posted May 21, 2011 8:38 UTC (Sat) by AlexHudson (guest, #41828) [Link] (6 responses)

No Openstack or Ubuntu? That does strike me as odd.

Open Virtualization Alliance

Posted May 22, 2011 9:42 UTC (Sun) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link]

Not surprising. It just reflects on the real goals of those who are not in the OVA.

Open Virtualization Alliance

Posted May 22, 2011 10:58 UTC (Sun) by ebirdie (guest, #512) [Link] (1 responses)

I think the couple articles below give nice background, from where you can draw conclusions yourself. For unbiased opinion it is a bit problem that publication is the same in both articles, but authors are different, however.

The Register
Mickos: Amazon and Eucalyptus still rule the cloud
Ex-MySQL man takes fight to OpenStack
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/19/marten_mickos_a_y...

The Register
Will Red Hat come back to haunt the Open Virtualization Alliance?
IBM and friends RHEV anti-VMware crusade
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/20/ova_and_rhev/

And in this context is good also to remember that VMware makes use of Open Source technologies as well and has been contributor. I can't say to what extent VMware's success also bases on successful use of free and open technologies, but, for sure, there is a fraction. What I can also say, it isn't very much brought up to an attention anywhere.

Open Virtualization Alliance

Posted Jul 4, 2011 7:31 UTC (Mon) by 5mediagang (guest, #76340) [Link]

You should check this article out as well. Gives you a clear description about OVA's goals. http://v12ntoday.com/news/news-news/united-we-stand-open-...

Open Virtualization Alliance

Posted May 22, 2011 12:15 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link] (2 responses)

I don't see their relvance. Red Hat has about what, 60% market share on enterprise linux? Then SUSE another 30 or so. the rest is shared among the small distro's like Oracle Unbreakable, Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu etc etc. Why bother getting someone in with 1% market share for an alliance like this one?

Open Virtualization Alliance

Posted May 22, 2011 20:35 UTC (Sun) by sce (subscriber, #65433) [Link] (1 responses)

This is completely subjective, but my experience is that at least some companies and hosting providers are starting to migrate from rhel/centos to ubuntu lts. If companies continue doing that, canonical might hastily become a bigger player in the server market.

I'm not saying that means anything today, just that the future might look quite different for canonical.

Open Virtualization Alliance

Posted May 22, 2011 20:41 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Noone can predict the future but RHEL/CentOS continues to dominate the market now. If a different vendor either puts its weight in terms of code contributions or commercial market share, alliances can add new members at any time. Such alliances are typically formed based on current market.

Open Virtualization Alliance

Posted Jul 4, 2011 7:33 UTC (Mon) by 5mediagang (guest, #76340) [Link]

With 65 new members onboard it is no longer an unstated goal that all these big names are teaming up to take down VMware. And for anyone still running around confused should read this article... http://v12ntoday.com/news/news-news/united-we-stand-open-...